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Definitions of 'swear' Wordnet 

1. (verb) curse, cuss, blaspheme, swear, imprecate
utter obscenities or profanities
"The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street"

2. (verb) affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear
to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
"Before God I swear I am innocent"

3. (verb) swear
promise solemnly; take an oath

4. (verb) swear, depose, depone
make a deposition; declare under oath

5. (verb) trust, swear, rely, bank
have confidence or faith in
"We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"


Definitions of 'swear' Webster 1913 Dictionary 

1. (verb) swear
to affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also, to affirm solemnly by some sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the Bible, the Koran, etc

2. (verb) swear
to give evidence on oath; as, to swear to the truth of a statement; he swore against the prisoner

3. (verb) swear
to make an appeal to God in an irreverant manner; to use the name of God or sacred things profanely; to call upon God in imprecation; to curse

4. (verb) swear
to utter or affirm with a solemn appeal to God for the truth of the declaration; to make (a promise, threat, or resolve) under oath

5. (verb) swear
to put to an oath; to cause to take an oath; to administer an oath to; -- ofetn followed by in or into; as, to swear witnesses; to swear a jury; to swear in an officer; he was sworn into office

6. (verb) swear
to declare or charge upon oath; as, he swore treason against his friend

7. (verb) swear
to appeal to by an oath


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